Villavencio-Calderon’s wife, Sandra Chica, told NBC New York she had heard her husband could be deported as soon as Monday, but a federal judge on Saturday granted him an emergency stay until July 20, the Legal Aid Society said.

“Although we are disappointed that Pablo will remain detained, today’s stay is a victory for him and his family, and also for due process and the fair administration of justice,” Gregory Copeland, the supervising attorney of the Immigration Law Unit at The Legal Aid Society said in a statement.

Chica and Villavicencio-Calderon’s two daughters miss their father, she said.

“They’re asking me where he is, why he is not coming home at night, that they miss him, that they want to play with him,” she said. "Their daddy was taken because of the law of this country, because they didn’t give him the chance to continue his legal process here,"

Chica’s husband applied for a green card in February, but hadn’t heard back yet, she added.